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title: But suddenly this penchant increased to such an extent that his time… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: But suddenly this penchant increased to such an extent that his time was almost entirely absorbed with this pastime. Who acts: extent. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 136

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But suddenly this penchant increased to such an extent that his time was almost entirely absorbed with this pastime.

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**Who acts:** extent · **What happens:** increase, absorb · **To what, where:** penchant, time

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (extent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:19:136
# text = But suddenly this penchant increased to such an extent that his time was almost entirely absorbed with this pastime.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	penchant	penchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	pastime	pastime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | participle |  | this penchant *not said here* |  |  |  | to such extent | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **absorb** | past · passive | such extent *not said here* | Henry's time |  |  |  | with this pastime; entirely *property* | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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